HeyJaredBenjamin Studebaker
Political Theorist from the University of Cambridge. Author of The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way is Shut & Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies
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Three Church Lefts (opens the original)
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Churches tend to struggle to effectively intervene in politics. The moral principles with which churches are concerned so often seem to be in tension with political imperatives. It is for this reason that Christians have tended to draw distinctions between the city of man and the city of God, the temporal and the spiritual, the king and the pope, or the church and the state. Even secular political theorists frequently argue that politics necessarily involves violations of morality—that politics
Stable to the Point of Dysfunction: Why the Liberal System Is Here to Stay (and frustrate us indefinitely) (opens the original)
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I have a new chapter out in a new edited volume, Postliberalism: A Transatlantic Debate, published by Suhrkamp. Veith Selk and Julian Nicolai Hofmann edited the book, which has been published entirely in German. They have made sure it contains a genuine diversity of viewpoints, with chapters by Stefan Borg, Annelein de Dijn, Samuel Moyn, Nadia Urbinati, Philip Manow, Claudia Weisner, Christopher Daase, Thomas Biebricher, Adrian Pabst, Patrick Deneen, Anton Jäger, Dirk Jörke, Oliver Eberl, Ingolf
The Matrix of Rubbish (opens the original)
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This morning I realized something I had not quite put together before. For some time now, I have noticed two different cleavages in cultural content:Ironist vs. EnclavistIronists don’t take the abstractions they appear to espouse seriously, treating them as pragmatic tools. Ironists instrumentalize or commodify abstractions. They do not take them fully seriously. This cuts ironists off from the inspirational force of abstractions, and they tend to suffer from a commitment deficit. Ironists are n
The Last Argument for Democracy (opens the original)
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I have a new journal article out in Democratic Theory, “The Last Argument for Democracy: The Unsettling Reliance of Embedded Democracies on Authoritarian Specter Regimes.” It’s open access, so there are no paywalls. You can read it here: https://doi.org/10.1017/S2332889426000333.Here’s the abstract:Winston Churchill’s line—that democracy is “the worst form of Government” except all other forms that have been tried—concedes that liberal democracy cannot normatively satisfy us. In the absence of c
Nationalism is Washed (opens the original)
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Recently, Tony Chamas wrote a piece calling for nationalist internationalism. I think this piece merits a direct response. There are many people I find smart and interesting who argue that the nation remains important.1 A variety of compelling arguments are made by Tony and by others in this vein. Modern democracy has only ever operated at the level of the nation-state. There is no demos </
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